When you quit using terms like "thumb suckers" and when you quit using every post to slam Obama then that discussion about policy, which on one hand you say you want but on the other you frame around Tea Party BS, can begin...

I'm willing to talk policy... I have posted on this thread and others "policy, policy, policy"...

When you're ready, let's talk policy...

Democracy??? I mean, in today's reality that 90% of candidate who spend the most win then something is wrong...

1.)...What we need is to restore the "Equal Time Doctrine"... Also called "Fairness Doctrine"... You get your microphone time to attack me then I get equal time to defend myself...

2.)... What we need is to respect the principles laid out in the Magna Carta where one gets to face his accusers... With Citizens United we have turned out back on 600 years of accepted legal theory... We now have BIG $$$ snipers ambushing people from behind walls... We are seeing "American Future Fund" (???) carpet bombing Obama here in NC... No such thing going on against Romney...

3.)... Like Europe, we need to limit campaign ads to a limited time before elections...

4.)... We need to fund all federal elections...

5.)... We need to have debates televised lie they used to be in the 50's with folks of all walks involved...

6.)... We need to enforce voter rights laws and let those who think that disenfranchising voters for political purpose that that practice is unacceptable and unAmerican...

7.)... We need redistrict our Congressional districts so that they are competitive... If this takes an outside group, even the UN, then so be it... Safe districts are the enemy of democracy...

8.)... We need to put civics & current events back in school... If we can fund tens of thousands of high school football programs there is no reason why we can't teach civics & current events...

9.)... We need to require that any television network licensed & approved by the FCC have to return to a required "public service announcements" and devote a % of their air time to documentaries...

and...

10.)... We need to set in motion a program where kids get get one year of college for every year of community service related paid empolyment...

B~